So the next time anyone shrugs and says, you know, the media doesn't tell us the stuff we really need to know, doesn't challenge us, what you gonna do? ... gently remind them that books are a medium too.

{*Don't know what this parapraxis means, but I originally typed: "Holocause". Which, I have to say, does fit in with the slowly dawning perspective that far from being the awful End of History, the monumental Never Again, the matchless Disaster ... it looks increasingly like the blueprint for an epoch. As see the Pulitzer Prize winning Power title [now avlble in p/bck]; dream traces from her RWANDA chapter woke me up sweating/sobbing the other night ...}